"So, where's Rin from?" I almost jumped with surprised when Kyo asked me that Sunday morning. "Why do you ask?"
"Well I'm just wondering, she said you two got candy from her old city and usually that means she comes from somewhere far away, so, where does she come from?" Oh no, think Tohru, think.
"Her family used to live in Florida before moving." Crap, I just said she came from America, stupid stupid Tohru.
"Why did she move?" Before I could ask him, Yuki swung a bag of garbage in his face. "Miss Honda, would you like to help me take out the trash?"
"Ah sure," anything to get away from Kyo's questions.
"Hey you damn rat come back here." Was all I heard from Kyo as Yuki closed the door.
"Please forgive him Miss Honda, we are just worried about you, you seemed to not be yourself lately." He said as we threw the trash away.
"Oh no, it's very sweet that you're concerned, it's just not something I can't talk about." Or won't talk about it.
"I understand, it's to protect Rin isn't it?"
More like to protect me. "Yeah, her family is bad, she only really has Arisa, Hana, and I."
"I see, well that's all, I think it's great you are going this far to help your friend." He smiled. I smiled back, even though it wasn't true, it was still nice to hear it.
Arisa did call me, making sure I was OK. After I finally was able to convince her as long as I'm at the Sohmas I'll be OK, she hung up and allowed me to get dinner ready. I went to bed early, but couldn't sleep. Taro was going to be in Japan tomorrow, my best bet is he's coming here. I always knew I would have to face them again, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. Arisa talks about we were going to find him and just end this ourselves, but I don't want to.
I yawned involuntary as I entered the school Monday. "Someone didn't get enough sleep." Rin commented, dragging me away from the four Sohmas and down some halls. "Where are we going Rin?"
"I left my notebook in my P.E. locker, so we are going to go get it." I knew the other reason, "The Sohmas don't like me and I don't like them."
We grabbed her notebook and began walking to class. "Arisa said she was going to look for Taro after school, she said her old gang buddies are going to help her out." Rin informed me.
"I just don't want her to get hurt, he's dangerous." I replied. I would never forgive myself if something happened to her.
"Hey cheer up Tohru, we'll figure something out. Remember, we all chose to be on your side. So don't worry about us." She assured me.
I smiled and nodded, until I stopped, no, froze. "Tohru?" Something was wrong, something was here. Something big, the energy I was feeling, was almost crushing me. "Tohru, what's wrong?" Rin called, shaking me. Wide eyes, I turned my head just as he stared back at me with the same shocked look before disappearing behind a door. "Tohru, what's wrong?" I didn't answer, just grabbed her and ran to class. "Tohru?"
I stopped right in front of the class but before I could tell her, the teacher pushed us in. We sat in our seats, Arisa and Hana looked at me with confused looks, I could only imagine Yuki and Kyo were doing the same. "Tohru what is wrong, you just froze, what did you see?"
"I saw, I saw…"
"Class, we have a new student, please meet Taro Tanaka."